My first shavings

This was a long process. I took my #3 hand-me-down plane to a free hand plane tune-up class at Woodcraft. As I was being educated, I realized I was missing the lever cap. Mentioning this to the fellas at work, a co-worker gave me his old planes.

At the same time, I was working with the great people at DMT. DMT is a great company. The helped me get an affordable complete set and also threw in some demo stones.

I finally finished cleaning up and tuning up a Victor #4 and made my first passes on a 2×4. Very rewarding!

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I had recently gotten into hand planes myself. I always wondered what the big deal was. After you learn to tune one yourself and you look at the board after the first couple shavings, it isn’t hard to figure out why. Congrats on the new adventure.

David

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Hand planes are what I use all the time. For two reasons I don’t yet have a planer or joiner. The other is when a board is less then two feet it is easer to hand plane. You will fine you will have to become good at sharping & “turning” up your plan this will come in time. Don’t give up I took me two years of “playing” with mind :) to become good ( still learning )!!

You never forget your first shaving. Congratulations. Hand on to that #3 and you can always find lever caps or other beater planes to swap in the cap. The #4 gets a lot of press as the all around smoothing plane, but I find myself grabbing for a restored #3 a lot. The smaller footprint is nice for most furniture pieces. Plus like yours it is a hand me down and it does hold a little sentimental value.

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that is what most of the majority find out when they try it :-)and if you add a few different handscrabers + stanley´s scraberplane (or another brand) andthe heavy scraberplane from Veritas (that shuold cover it) then you will discover thatyou nearly wont have to by sandpaper again = no Dust ….LOL